I bought a Bianchi a while back that had a set of levers someone modified like this. Routing was the same, but there was a grooved plastic piece around the normal cable anchor. Lever bodies were drilled as was the bar. The work on the bar looked quite good and I assumed it might have been factory. I was terrified to find derailleur cables used in place of brake cables! I changed back to traditional cable routing and fitted proper cables before I ever took a test ride. btw. if anyone is interested, I'd like to trade the aero mod lever bodies with plastic rollers for useable un-modified bodies (any condition). Cheers, Byron (not into the aero thing)Morton Nashville, tn
> > what I'm really curious about is that the brake
> levers, with
> > proper gum hoods, appear to have aero cable
> routing!
> > More digital image trickery or ???????
>
> I made one pair of completely aero old Record (NR)
> levers in the 80's. I
> put a snapshot up at
> http://bulgier.net/
> The pivoting barrel that holds the cable end is
> replaced with a
> sealed-bearing pulley. The cable end goes in the
> socket where the cable
> housing is supposed to go, and the cable goes down,
> around the front of the
> pulley, and follows the pulley 90 degrees until it
> is heading straight back.
> It passes under the bolt that mounts lever to bar
> The "perch" or whatever
> you call the main, dark anodized piece, is
> counterbored from the back as a
> housing stop at this cable exit point. The
> handlebar must also be drilled,
> and the housing runs inside the bar to another hole
> in the bar, about where
> you stop taping, ~3cm from the stem.
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